At about 3:00 today my mom texts me and says William has been sneezing all day and has a snotty nose. She also says that he hasn't been misbehaving.
So, I'm thinking well, the kid felt bad the last couple of days and that's why he acted the way he did and now he's feeling sick and so maybe we're past the acting like a turd.
No. Wrong. I get to Mom's early to check in on my somewhat sick child (it's just allergies so he's really not sick) just in time for him to empty an entire bottle of Pepto-Bismol onto my mom's carpet. Any body know how to get that pink stain out of carpet? I sure tried, with the steam cleaner even, no such luck.
I spanked him and sat him on the couch and told him not to get up. I went to clean up the mess. I go over to the couch to talk to him after I'm done trying to get the mess out of the carpet only to find that he's taken an entire tube of my dad's arthritis cream and squirted it all over his pants. I spanked him, AGAIN, and then made him sit in a corner for a couple of minutes. After which he was able to tell me what he'd done wrong and he apologized.
I can HONESTLY say I have never been more relieved to have him fall asleep in the car on the way home so I could just put him in bed when we got here. The only question I dare ask at this juncture is "What's tomorrow going to be like?"
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Oh, no!
As for the stain, I don't know how this would work on carpet, but my go-to stain remover is equal parts Dawn dishwashing liquid, ammonia and water. I use it on my laundry and it will get anything out (including blood from a little boy's random bloody nose the other night).
Yikes. I'm not sure what to use to clean the carpet. Hmm.. if you find something.. let us know. :-)
I'm sure today will be great!
LOVE LISA
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